Global financial integration and imbalances in financial and money markets had adversely affected many countries, particularly emerging market economies.

Yes, financial markets in troubled countries for example, Russia s currency, equity, and bond markets have been negatively affected. But the more generalized contagion to global financial markets that geopolitical tensions typically engender has failed to materialize.

Also during the year, the Global Compact stepped up its efforts with respect to engaging the financial markets.

BRUSSELS The purpose of the euro was to create fully integrated financial markets but, since the start of the global financial crisis in 2008, markets have been renationalizing. So the future of the eurozone depends crucially on whether that trend continues or Europe s financial markets become fully integrated.

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Specific financial measures will be needed in order to improve the financial situation of export oriented SMEs and thereby facilitate their continuous expansion into global markets.

And, yes, financial markets require close supervision and regulation. But what is true of financial markets need not be true of other markets.

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Global coordination of economic policies was also essential for the promotion of macroeconomic stability, especially in the monetary and financial markets.

Asymmetries in currency markets are a particularly important aspect of economic power, since they underlie global trade and financial markets. By limiting the convertibility of its currency, China is avoiding currency markets ability to discipline domestic economic decisions.

Routine phishing can affect any market, but our most important observations concern financial markets timely enough, given the massive boom in the equity and real estate markets since 2009, and the turmoil in global asset markets since last month.

NEW YORK A paradox has emerged in the financial markets of the advanced economies since the 2008 global financial crisis. Unconventional monetary policies have created a massive overhang of liquidity.

IV. Enhancing prudential oversight of financial markets

In turn, the closer integration of global financial and other markets has meant that the knock on effects of economic and financial crime can seldom be confined to a single country.

110. Developments in information technology have changed the nature of financial services and stock markets, providing the means to electronically amass global information, monitor prices and execute in many financial instruments.

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Transparency should be enhanced, since ratings had a significant impact on the ability of countries to gain access to capital from global financial markets.

The key questions now are whether global economic growth is self sustaining without QE, whether emerging markets output will continue to rise strongly, albeit at a slower pace, and whether current global financial reform efforts will be sufficient to prevent another crisis in emerging markets.

In other words, SMEs from Singapore remain interested in regional markets rather than global markets.

There is no question that emerging markets are highly sensitive to global market conditions, including not only changes in short term US interest rates, but also other financial risks, as measured, for example, by the volatility index VIX. Capital flow bonanzas, often spurred by low US interest rates and calm global financial markets, end abruptly when these conditions reverse.

(f) Promoting better coherence among global development, financial and trade policies so that the ability of the developing countries to benefit from increasing trade was not compromised by imperfections in financial markets

We create financial markets that are super complex.

It was the liberalization of international financial markets.

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The IMF should see to it that there are no gaps in the surveillance of financial institutions. It can help shape a more robust global supervisory system which needs to be built in order to preserve the benefits of global financial markets.

Recognizing the benefits of the increasing integration of global markets and the important role of financial capital flows for promoting economic development and social welfare,

Like the financial crisis itself, this trend is now global. Political leaders in dozens of countries are making decisions that will drive the performance of local (and global) markets for the foreseeable future.

None of this is to say that the international financial realities a country faces are necessarily always reasonable. Sometimes global financial markets eagerness to lend results in unreasonable booms, followed by abrupt reversals.

Speculators could have front run the bank in the markets, selling short, driving equity prices down, and forcing the French financial institution to sell into a bottomless pit. Is a forced bankruptcy in extremely fragile global financial markets what the French government wanted for Société Générale?

Economic markets, markets for goods, systems for interchange of technology and knowledge are very rapidly becoming global.

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13. The process of financial innovation and deregulation and liberalization of financial markets throughout the world had led to more integrated and globalized capital markets.

So, while global markets arguably have been rationally complacent, financial contagion cannot be ruled out. A century ago, financial markets priced in a very low probability that a major conflict would occur, blissfully ignoring the risks that led to World War I until late in the summer of 1914.

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In the coming years, emerging markets will most likely struggle with implementation of global financial regulatory standards, which apply mostly to more sophisticated financial markets. They will also confront a rapidly changing external environment and a growing need to manage capital flows more effectively, which will require much closer coordination between central banks and financial regulators.

The IMF created the SDR in 1969 to supplement existing reserve currencies, thereby providing the global financial system with additional liquidity. As it stands, the SDR s role remains largely limited to IMF operations its share in global financial markets and central banks international reserves is negligible.

The slow process of implementation of the HIPC initiative and the frequency of financial crises affecting middle income countries following their rapid integration into the global financial markets are sources of concern for the international community.

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They also influence private financial markets to support technology transfer.

The principles of free global markets were still being applied selectively.